Sharp County record., 1887-11-03

the Government and its officers in Alaska
concerning seizures of British vessels is
now made public
The Pesther Lloyd, in an inspired arti-
Gle, expresses the readiness OF austria
TO enter into an alliance with England.
MILTON ROBERTS and Thomas Crane
were instantly killed by the explosica OF
the boiler of a steam thre5her near Pastor,
York County, Neb., on the 18th.
THE board of managers of the New York
Produce Exchange on the Goth suspended
about 125 members for non-payment OF
their annual dues, and still larger num-
Der for failing to pay the gratuity fund
assessments.
THE steamer Upupa collided with and
sunk the German bark Planteur Oil Beachy
Head, England, on the 10Th. Eleven per-
sons were drowned and the captain OF the
bark has since died. Only two of the crew
of the bark survived.
THOMAS II. DAVIS, assistant freight
agent of the New York Central railroad IN
New York, who absconded, leaving de-
ficiency of $4,000 in his accounts, was
caught in Canada on the 18th, and taken
back. He pleaded guilty, and was held
for trial
AT the agricultural convention in Wash
ing on the Goth papers were read on "lhe
Work and the Needs of Experiment Sta
tions," and Experiments and 1nvestiga-
tions Demanded by the Farmers of Iowa."
SHORTLY before noon on the 2Jth the
fast express on the Chesapeake q Ohio
railroad, six coaches, going west, met
with an accident twelve miles below
Charleston, w. Va, in which twenty-six
passengers were more or less injured
None were killed outright.
ADvICEs from Melbourne say the
steamer Cheviot has been wrecked at
Port Phillip. The Cheviot was a colonial
passenger steamer of iron and belonged
to Melbourne. Many of the passengers
and crew were drowned. The survivors
have reached Melbourne.
AN effort is being made by Governor
Gray of Indiana and others to ind uce the
United States Attorney to prosecute in
the Federal courts the band of night ma.
rauders in Southwestern Indiana known as
"The White Caps"
CHINA has applied to the German army
authorities for officers to instruct and or.
ganize the Chinese army land the Emperor
has consented to allow officers to go there.
Many have volunteered for the work,
though the salary is small.
THE executive board of Good Templars
in session at Boston, on the 9th, elected
w. w. Tunbull, of Glasgow, Scotland, to
be Right Worthy Grand Templar in place
of Hon. j. B. Finch. Dr. OronhyateEha,
of Ontario, was chosen to fill the office
vacated by Mr.. Turnbull.
A TELEGRAM was received at Wash
ington on the Goth from Prof. Wiley, OF
the Agricultural Department, now in
Louisiana, stating that the cyclone on
that day entirely wrecked the machinery
erected for the purpose of trying the ex'
pertinent Of making sugar by the dilfusive
process
PETROLEUM, which had been used for
fuel caught fire in the Fulton Iron Works
at San Francisco on the night of the 19uh,
and destroyed the machine.shops with
much machinery and castings for six
steam schooners, which had been COM
pleted. Loss, 100000. The California
Car Works, adjoining, were also burned,
Their loss will be between $4,000 and
$4,000. -,
AN application was made beforc-J+rrteSsse
O'Bren of the Court of Queens Bench at
Dublin, on the Goth, for writ of certiorarj
to quash the verdict of wilful murder
rendered by the coroner's jury against the
policemen who did the shooting at
Mitchellstown, The application, being
unopposed by the Attorney General, was
granted.
THE London Sp0rtSmen's correspondent
at Sydney, N. s. W., telegraphs that
Hanlan, the Canadian oarsman, is suffer.
ing from q carbuncle on one of his wrists,
rendering it impossible for him to row for
several days. His race with Beach will
consequently be postponed until the last
of November or the first part of December,
provided the Australian sculler is willing.